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Stan Van Gundy expects that after Coupard plays, the team will be able to open the situation from Dwight Howard, because after several seasons of training, Dwight Howard's offense may be a bit behind Yao Ming's, but compared to just now When he entered the league, he had made great progress. After the team's outside offense was blocked, he hoped that Dwight Howard could open the situation from Coupard.

After all, Coppard is not Yao Ming. Although Yao Ming did not come to the Sonics, he was in the Sonics in that season. He also supported the Sonics inside, but at that time he was more famous. Chris Wilcox, the supersonic team is mainly attacking from the outside, so his ability is not valued by many people, and after Yao Ming arrived, he became the team's substitute, who will go Focus on a substitute player.

Many teams know the importance of collecting intelligence, but when collecting information, there are different levels of importance. For the core players of the team, not only every move must be attached great importance to, but also it must be analyzed from multiple aspects For him, for the sub-core players of the team, the attention will drop by another level, and for other starters and sixth players, it will be another level, and for other players in the regular rotation main lineup, Basically just pay a little attention.

So Coupard was still in the team's starting lineup last season, and was the third or fourth most important player on the team. This season, he suddenly retreated to the seventh or eighth position. Who would pay attention to such a player? , there is no need for that at all, and he really didn't have any great performances. Although he perfectly completed the task of substituting when Yao Ming was not on the court, he didn't have any outstanding performances. It's normal to ignore something.

Even Dwight Howard himself felt that he had finally waited for his own spring, and was eager to show off his offensive ability, but he encountered a huge problem when he came up to attack with the ball for the first time. [

Because compared with Yao Ming, Coupard's speed is faster and his footwork is more flexible, but he has the same weight and lower body strength as Yao Ming, so his defense is more diffuse than Yao Ming's defense. Dwight Howard As soon as he received the ball, he didn't wait for him to squeeze to the basket, and found that Coupard had already squeezed over, and he didn't give him any time and space to start.

He tried to squeeze in a couple of times, but Coppard didn't move at all. The strength of his upper body could push Coopard away, but Coppard's lower body was firmly nailed to the ground, which showed that Out of the embarrassment of Dwight Howard, his jump can only be powerful if he is within three feet of the basket, because even if he is unsteady at that time, he can still jump up and dunk the ball into the basket. Far away from the basket, he doesn't have mid-range shooting ability, and he can't play back-up singles. Of course, it's not that he can't, but he's not very good at it. Sometimes it's okay to bully such a second-rate insider, and he has a little strength. Yes, there is nothing he can do, and the hook rate is pitifully low, so when Dwight Howard finds that he can't squeeze Coupard, and he is farther outside than Yao Ming, he doesn't know what to do. done.

Continue to squeeze under the basket, not to mention that the game time does not allow it, even if it is allowed, you must be able to squeeze it anyway, like the ones here that are motionless, it is useless even if you squeeze for a long time, so Dwight Howard thought again and again. , or pass the ball out again.

It was like this for the first time, but for the second time, Dwight Howard felt a bit shameful about passing the ball again, so he came up with a post-up single and then turned around for a layup, but because he didn't push Coupard at all , so when he turned around, there was still some distance from the basket, and the layup turned into a throw. The ball was like riding a roller coaster, sliding high above the basket, and then fell to the far side of the plug. Erji Ibaka hands.

From the beginning of the game to the present, basically one quarter has passed. Except for the attack against Yao Ming for the first time, Dwight Howard has not scored a single goal in a sports game. After scoring four points, only the pitiful two points were scored. As for Yao Ming, he scored fourteen points in more than half a quarter, and only had two free throws.

Yao Ming's shooting percentage in this quarter is as high as [-]%. You must know that his opponent is Dwight Howard, the league's number one center who is good at defense, and he also ranks second in the voting for the best defensive player. When defending the opposing player, it actually allowed the opponent to shoot more than [-]% of the shots. For the defensive player, this has to be said to be a great shame.

But Dwight Howard still had a charming smile on his face, he didn't seem to be angry at all, he wasn't angry at all, he didn't hate himself or his opponent, and he didn't know what would happen to Dwight Howard to get angry. One point has been criticized by many people for lack of arrogance and anger.

When a player is outside the court, he can keep smiling in any situation, which is a well-bred performance, but if he keeps smiling at all times on the court, and he is neither anxious nor irritable, then he can only Being despised by others, even Kobe Bryant has that charming smile, but when he is on the field, especially when the team is behind, he is like a vicious man. There is no shortage of fierce times, that is, Dwight Howard, who has never seen it.

After Coupard came up, he not only made Dwight Howard very uncomfortable in defense, but also made a lot of achievements in offense. Stephen still gave him full support like he did to Yao Ming, and he also made two of three shots in return. With Stephen's support, his offense is all about squeezing to the basket and making small hooks, but it's this move that makes Dwight Howard helpless.

Through an intuitive comparison, people realize that Dwight Howard's name does not match the reality, perhaps because he met a player of the type like Yao Ming or Coupard. Player, Dwight Howard really doesn't have any good solutions, and this kind of psychological and physical pressure also makes him tired and out of breath early. It is absolutely unimaginable that the game will be so tiring in just one quarter.

After Stan Van Gundy saw this, he replaced Dwight Howard with Marcin Gortat. Marcin Gortat was born in Poland and had a nickname: "Polish Hammer". He was the same as Stephen in [-]. The second-round pick is also a famous person in the league and holds the lowest salary, but in this season, he performed very well, especially after the playoffs, when Dwight Howard encountered a foul crisis in the two games. is exceptional.

He has a height of [-] meters, and at the same time he plays tougher. After he faced Coupard, the height of the two was relatively close, and although he could not compete with Coupard in terms of strength, Cooper It was not so easy for De to fight hard, the two of them got into an entanglement, and at this time Stephen began to show his power from the outside.

With just 41 seconds left in the first quarter, Steph hit a quick 23-pointer and then quickly completed a steal from Hedo Turkoglu that set Ralph Alston on the fast break. At this time, Stephen had already stood outside the three-point line. After receiving the pass from Coupard, he raised his hand and made a three-pointer. , and at this time there are [-] seconds left in the game.

The Magic served again, and Ralph Alston handed the ball to Hedo Turkoglu. Hedo Turkoglu paid great attention to the protection of the ball this time. After two consecutive changes of direction, he suddenly passed the ball to the basket. Marcin Gortat, who got off, then ran to the other side quickly and took the ball from Marcin Gortat again. Although Kevin Durant also ran over at the same time, he gave it to Hidot Keglu shot empty, raised his hand and threw the ball into the basket, which was also a three-pointer.

Only a little more than three seconds of attack time was left for the Sonics. Earl Watson went to serve and the ball was sent directly to Stephen's hands. Although the Magic tried their best to prevent Stephen from receiving the ball, but in On the front and back line, they really didn't have any players who could compete with Stephen. While Stephen was running to catch the ball, he threw the ball far away. At this time, his back foot had just left the midfield line. The flight ran out of game time, and the ball flew right into the basket at the end of the first quarter.